Juliette Binoche

“Fighting the ageing process just doesn't work. I think that actresses, ultimately, are responsible for the faces we give to women.”

“I've been changed watching films or reading books or hearing music, and that helps you to live your life.”

“I like being a mother, and I want to be involved in my work, so I have to make choices. If you're a film actress, your career is from 20 to 45, but you can still dream.”

“I'm very down-to-earth and accessible, I think.”

“I would say I'm humanly engaged.”

“I think it's the same simple thing for everyone - to be happy, and have love in your life.”

“I'm a fighter as a mother. I'm fighting to be a mother, but I cannot say no to my passion because it's me, as well.”

“Being a famous actress may give you a sense of being important, but believe me, it's just an illusion.”

“I like intensity. If it's too mellow, I feel like, bleah. I like intensity, because it's way of reaching spaces inside of you, and it's my need of knowledge, of knowing about myself regardless.”

“I want to make films that are political and social. Films with a message or an idea. Films that dare to ask.”

“In a building with apartments, of course, you want to make connections. Life is easier that way. There's salt if you don't have salt; you can knock at someone's door, like in any city. But you know, you can hear the others, and you want to sleep, you get annoyed.”

“There was probably something as a child I wanted to express, something unsaid that I needed to share.”

“My aim was never to be an American star; otherwise, I would have moved to Los Angeles.”

“I think I am pretty much melancholic.”

“I'm not obsessed by looks. I think you can become a prisoner of your own image.”

“Acting is like peeling an onion. You have to peel away each layer to reveal another.”

“Before I thought there was a common denominator between my films - as if all my characters were sisters - but I'm not so sure now.”

“What makes a person sexy is when he's not trying to be sexy.”

“I think acting is about forgetting yourself in order to give the best of yourself. It's passing through you more than you're creating it. You're not the flower, but the vase which holds the flower.”

“אני חושבת כי אני מאוד מלנכולית.”